AI Judge
Intellectual Property Rights and Murder
Published on 16. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
370 pages
979-8-9897506-3-4 (ISBN)
Description
On Destination, Turing-capable AIs have freedoms of contract, speech, and association. Now AI Judge must address AI intellectual property ownership.
Meanwhile, AI Judge chairs an Inquest into the murder of Out Transport's CEO, John Coach. His body was found at Wide Mine - an illegal helium-3 mining operation on Destination. There are no known witnesses to the murder, even the perpetrator is unknown. AI experts help search for the stolen helium-3, the AI mining equipment operators, and the missing ship, Black Pearl. Wide Mine coconspirators, including John Coach, are investigated.
The Inquest findings are used at the murder trial on Earth. Who committed the murder? Who was murdered - can destruction of the AI operators constitute murder? Are the coconspirators guilty of murder?
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Person
Ray K. Harris is a Tucson, Arizona, native and University of Arizona alum (BSBA 1979) (JD 1982). After moving 110 miles to Phoenix, he practiced law with a large Phoenix firm for 40 years and married his wife Patricia (now together 39 years). They raised two children. He began reading science fiction (and thereby traveling the universe) over 50 years ago. He retired in 2022 and began writing the AI Judge trilogy. This is Book Two. Watch DestinationCourt.com for notice of the upcoming third book.